John Brownlee regularly assaulted children with various implements including a wooden bat called a Clacken, a snooker cue and a golf club while he taught at the capital's Edinburgh Academy.

Edinburgh Academy faced criticism earlier this year after posting photographs of some of these pupils carrying wooden “clacken” bats just a day after a former teacher was found in court to ...

Mr Campbell also described how the teacher would use a wooden ... to find a clacken - which can be up to 18in (46cm) long. Instead, he inflicted a beating using a table tennis bat which did ...

John Brownlee beat students at Edinburgh Academy with wooden bats and pushed one boy down ... long paddle known as a "clacken". He also said Brownlee once forced him to the ground and performed ...

Kenneth said he was targeted for frequent, vicious beatings "usually with a sporting implement called a clacken which is like a large wooden bat". He described his time at the private school as ...

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